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| PRESS RELEASE: ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE APPROVES BILL THAT WOULD CRIMINALIZE SPANKING AND THREATEN PARENTAL AUTHORITY (4/15/08) |
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ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE APPROVES BILL THAT WOULD CRIMINALIZE SPANKING AND THREATEN PARENTAL AUTHORITY
SACRAMENTO – Assembly Bill 2943 (Lieber) was approved today by the Assembly Committee on Public Safety. If approved by the Legislature and signed by the governor, the bill would make the ordinary practice of spanking a child by a parent a criminal act. This legislation, veiled as a prohibition of corporal punishment and child abuse, makes no distinction between an acceptable form of parental discipline – a spanking – and the violent act of “brandishing a deadly weapon upon a child.”
Assembly member Sally Lieber, who has publicly stated she opposes spanking of any kind, is continuing her crusade at criminalizing parents who use spanking as a form of discipline. While careful not to include the word “spanking,” AB 2943 would make no distinction between a commonly used, appropriate form of discipline – a spank – and other more violent, inappropriate acts toward children. If a person is convicted of violating this law, the children could be removed from the home and the parent could spend time in jail.
“No one is in favor of child abuse and our society must do everything in its power to prevent violence toward children,” stated Everett Rice, the legislative coordinator for California Family Council. “But the way this bill is written, a legitimate spanking can be equated with cutting a child. The accepted use of a swat with a hand could be construed as child abuse.” California Family Council’s (CFC) goal is to protect children from child abuse, while protecting the rights of parents and how they raise their children. CFC will work hard against this legislation as it moves through the legislative process.
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| PRESS RELEASE: CFC Responds to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Vow To Oppose The California Marriage Amendment |
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April 12, 2008
Riverside, CA – During comments to a recent gathering of Log Cabin Republicans, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vowed to oppose a constitutional amendment upholding marriage as only between a man and woman, stating “...it will never happen…I think we need a constitutional amendment so that foreign-born citizens can run for president, but not about gay marriage," he added. "That's a total waste of time.” The Log Cabin organization promotes the policies of its homosexual constituents. Read entire press release.
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| New York and California Find New Fundamental Right |
| Family News In Focus, by Terry Phillips |
| February 28, 2008 |
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The Constitution guarantees rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness but on the coasts lawmakers are trying to add another fundamental right to that list; the right to abortion.
Half a decade ago California enshrined abortion into law as a fundamental right. Becky Burgoyne, legislative analyst at the California Family Council, remembers how, now-recalled Governor Grey Davis, hung laurels around his own neck.
“As Governor Davis said at the time, ‘California is the most pro-choice state in America and proud of it.’”
But now there’s competition from a governor with a future. New York’s Eliot Spitzer is trying to resurrect the no-holds barred approach to abortion of Governor Davis. Reverend Jason McGuire is with New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms.
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| ACT II: What's Ahead for the California Legislature in 2008? |
| Chrisitian Examiner |
| February 2008 |
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by Rebecca Burgoyne
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Legislators returned to Sacramento in January for the second year of a two-year session. In 2007, the usual cast of characters—physician-assisted suicide, homosexual marriage, expanding rights for homosexuals, and chipping away parental rights—took center stage. While the attempt to legalize physician-assisted suicide was abandoned and the governor vetoed another run at homosexual marriage, both of these issues could return this year.
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| What happened to the right to privacy? |
| California Catholic Daily |
| February 6, 2008 |
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Assembly bill seeks to make large grant-writing foundations more homosexual friendly
Authored by Assemblyman Joe Coto (D-San Jose), AB 624 would “require a private, corporate, or public operating foundation with assets over $250,000,000 to collect specified ethnic and, gender, and sexual orientation data pertaining to its governance and grantmaking,” says the bill’s Legislative Counsel’s Digest.
...Opponents of the bill, the State Bar Nonprofit and Unincorporated Organizations Committee and the California Family Council, have criticized the bill, in part, because the requirement of collecting and publishing racial, ethnic, and gender data “is intrusive to the personal affairs of the board members and staff of foundations,” according to a statement in the Judiciary Committee analysis. “The intrusiveness extends beyond the foundations to their grant recipients and to businesses that interact with foundations. Such intrusiveness is in conflict with constitutional rights of privacy.”
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| Intrusive Gay Bill Moving Through CA Legislature |
| Family News In Focus |
| February 1, 2008 |
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by Terry Phillips
The concept of "big brother" government is being re-tooled by the homosexual lobby in California. It makes the favored gay legislative themes pale in comparison.
When first written, the California bill would have required a private foundation to gather information about its operations pertaining only to race and gender. Becky Burgoyne, legislation analyst with the California Family Council, says it was soon amended.
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| California Assembly OKs Bill that Would Restrict Nonprofits |
| CitizenLink |
| January 31, 2008 |
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by Jennifer Mesko, managing editor
Legislation is an 'incremental step toward forced diversity quotas.'
Legislation approved this week by the California Assembly would force some nonprofits to record the sexual orientation of board members, as well as the number of grants awarded to homosexual groups.
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| California Family Council Sues State over Gender Redefinition |
| CitizenLink |
| November 28, 2007 |
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The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) and Advocates for Faith and Freedom (AFF) sued California in federal court Tuesday over SB 777, a law that changes the definition of gender and essentially forces public schools to present a one-sided message about homosexuality, bisexuality and transgender issues.
...Ron Prentice, chief executive officer of CFC, said: “The goal of SB 777 is not to create a gender-neutral environment, but to disregard the traditional family and its beliefs, and respect for a mom and dad raising the kids.”
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| Lawsuit challenges gender law for schools |
| San Diego Tribune |
| November 28, 2007 |
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Citing fears of predators in bathrooms and teachers muzzled for promoting traditional families, a religious-liberties group filed a lawsuit yesterday challenging a new state law that changes the way “gender” is defined in schools.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court by the California Education Committee and Advocates for Faith and Freedom – a group involved in at least 10 lawsuits in California, over topics ranging from same-sex marriage to a doctor's refusal to artificially inseminate a lesbian couple.
...“If you say anything that is opposed to that alternative lifestyle, you are discriminating against those individuals,” said Ron Prentice of the California Family Council, which oversees the California Education Committee. “It's an indoctrinating bill. It's a bill that says you must respect the rights of homosexuals to the degree that the traditional world view is silenced.”
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| Religious group sues state to overturn gender-bias law |
| San Francisco Chronicle |
| November 28, 2007 |
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Religious conservatives sued Tuesday to overturn a state law barring public schools from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or identity, saying it would force school officials to allow boys into girls' locker rooms.
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| Lawsuit challenges ban on 'mom' and 'dad' |
| WorldNews Daily |
| 11/29/07 |
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Absent a provision in the California Constitution that would ban "stupid" laws, the non-profit Advocates for Faith and Freedom has filed a lawsuit challenging a new state law that would ban "mom" and "dad" from public schools.
..."Parents sending their children to public schools are trusting that school officials will protect their children's safety," said Ron Prentice, chief executive officers of California Family Council. "It defies logic that schools will be required by law to ignore one's anatomy. The goal of SB 777 is not to create a gender neutral environment, but to disregard the traditional family, and its beliefs, and respect for a mom and dad raising the kids."
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| Legislation ’07: Different year, same agenda, shocking results |
| Christian Examiner, November 2007 |
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by Karen Holgate
Unlike the end of legislative sessions of the past where legislators and staff worked feverishly—often extending daily sessions until the early morning hours—the 2007 legislative session ended quietly two days before its Sept. 14 midnight deadline. And symptomatic of the political tensions between parties and the governor, legislators did not address issues of pressing importance to California residents, such as the growing water shortage and a healthcare system burdened with government bureaucracy and costs.
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| Groups jousting over gay rights in California |
| San Diego Union Tribune |
| 11/12/07 |
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| SACRAMENTO – In the battle over gay rights, this fall was supposed to be a slow period, almost like a political time-out. Both sides were expected to spend the next few months preparing for a California Supreme Court decision on whether to overturn the state's ban on same-sex marriage.
Instead, it's been anything but quiet.
Gay rights advocates are spending millions of dollars on a television advertising campaign to promote same-sex marriage.
...Ron Prentice, president of the California Family Council, which opposes same-sex marriage, questions the effectiveness of the ad.
“When push comes to shove, people really have a discomfort level with giving marriage to the homosexual community,” Prentice said.
Prentice also said that the gay rights advocates realize that the sight of same-sex couples marrying is unpopular. He believes that is the reason the ad features a heterosexual couple.
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| California Schoolchildren Learn Reading, Writing and the Gay Agenda (11/5/07) |
| CitizenLink |
| 11/5/07 |
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Parents need to realize what's being taught in the classroom.
What are teachers telling your children behind closed doors? Parents in San Diego recently found out. Mick Rabin, a teacher at Oak Park Elementary School, is unashamedly promoting homosexuality to third-grade students.
...Ron Prentice, director of the California Family Council, said San Diego residents should be concerned.
“The parents of these children as well as the parents throughout San Diego and California and the country should be outraged by this message coming to 8- and 9-year-olds," he said.
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| Calif. Governor signs school bill that protects teaching on gay lifestyle |
| The Christian Examiner (November 2007) |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Advocates for Faith and Freedom expects to file a lawsuit shortly over SB 777, a new law signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Oct. 12, which will prohibit any public school curriculum that would adversely portray the homosexual lifestyle.
“We definitely need to bring a challenge to this legislation,” said Robert Tyler, founder of the nonprofit religious liberty organization, adding that they are seeking possible plaintiffs who will be impacted by the law.
...Ron Prentice, president of the California Family Council said applied to the letter of the law, evangelical churches that believe homosexuality is a sin could be barred from renting any state owned facilities, including parks.
“It also specifically says that you can go after the leadership of nonprofit organizations that have membership that disallows homosexuals, that will not provide services to homosexuals because of what we stand for,” he said. “It’s rampant and it’s going to be throughout law.”
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